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Staff Cloud Identity Platform Engineer
General Motors Company · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What General Motors Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles171 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MI: $140k–$163k, median $150k. Most were filed at wage level IV (74%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 606 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 267 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description The Role As a Staff Cloud Identity Platform Engineer, you will design, automate, operate, and continuously improve secure, reliable, and scalable identity services for a global enterprise. You will support Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra External ID, and foundational Azure infrastructure across workforce, application, partner, and external-user experiences. This role applies Site Reliability Engineering principles to cloud identity, including service-level objectives, observability, automation, error-budget management, incident response, resilience engineering, capacity planning, and reduction of operational toil. You will help establish identity platforms that are secure by design, measurable, recoverable, and dependable at enterprise scale. What you’ll do • Design, configure, implement, and operate Microsoft Entra ID capabilities for workforce and application identity. • Implement Microsoft Entra External ID capabilities for external users, partners, and application experiences, including registration, authentication, federation, user journeys, and authorization patterns. • Integrate applications and services using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and other secure identity standards. • Configure and support single sign-on, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, role-based access control, privileged access, identity governance, and access reviews. • Develop secure patterns for application onboarding, directory synchronization, service principals, managed identities, workload access, and identity lifecycle processes. • Define and manage service-level indicators and objectives for identity platforms, including authentication success rate, availability, latency, federation health, provisioning reliability, and recovery performance. • Establish reliability practices such as error budgets, availability targets, dependency mapping, capacity planning, resiliency testing, and measurable operational health reviews. • Apply Azure infrastructure fundamentals to identity platform engineering, including subscriptions, resource organization, networking, Key Vault, monitoring, logging, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and governance. • Build observability using metrics, logs, traces, synthetic transactions, dashboards, alerting, and identity-specific security and reliability signals. • Monitor platform health, investigate alerts, troubleshoot authentication and authorization issues, and participate in incident response and on-call activities as applicable. • Lead or contribute to incident triage, service restoration, stakeholder communications, root-cause analysis, and blameless post-incident reviews. • Identify recurring incidents, manual processes, and operational toil; automate or redesign them to improve reliability and engineer effectiveness. • Automate identity and cloud platform activities using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Microsoft Graph, Bicep, Terraform, or comparable technologies. • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, policy-as-code, progressive delivery, change validation, and safe rollback practices. • Design and validate high-availability, failover, recovery, and business-continuity patterns for identity services and critical dependencies. • Maintain runbooks, playbooks, service documentation, troubleshooting guides, architecture records, and operational readiness checklists. • Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, architecture, privacy, compliance, and product teams to manage technical dependencies and operational risks. • Evaluate Microsoft capabilities, third-party solutions, and emerging identity patterns based on security, reliability, usability, scalability, supportability, and co